Movie Reviews for Writers: The Girl in the Book

Do you ever look back on your life as a writer and think that you should have been so much farther along than you are? That you should be more successful? That you should have so much more to show for all that time, effort, and the internal world you have committed to your writing life? Do those thoughts ever make you want to just stop writing and focus on something else?

If so, you really need to watch this indie drama film. 

Alice is the daughter of two literary agents. Her mother is doing okay and is fantastic at discovering new talent, but her father is even better at stealing them away from her and turning them into household names. That’s how young Alice (an amazing performance by Ana Mulvoy-Ten) meets Milan Daneker (Michael Nyqvist), a new writer discovered by her mother and poached by her father. 

Her father introduces her as a budding writer, and she glances away and excuses herself. He says later over dinner: “I expect great things from you.” Ouch. No pressure, as the cliche goes. 

Milan takes an interest in Alice’s writing and strikes up a friendship with her that is more than a little inappropriate for a grown man to have with a teenage girl. 

While exploring the house, Milan intrudes on Alice as she is writing in her journal.

Milan: You’re a writer? 

Alice: I don’t know.

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